It’s the end of the road for the DC Streetcar

After more than a decade, the experiment that was DC Streetcar is over.

The District Department of Transportation says the 2.2-mile electric trolley line that served Northeast D.C. on H Street and Benning Road was too expensive to maintain.

With yearly operating costs of $10 million, the streetcar that traveled from Union Station to the intersection of Oklahoma Avenue and Benning Road had 2,600 daily riders.

It was not only Washingtonians who wanted to take one more ride; some traveled a great distance to have their first.